Wire carrier for hand-operated electric tools



March 26, 1963 s. J. KALLER 3,082,983

WIRE CARRIER FOR HAND-OPERATED ELECTRIC TOOLS Filed Jan. 4, 1961 UnitedStates Patent 3,032,983 WIRE CARRIER FOR HAND-GPERATED ELECTRIC T6015Sigurd Johan Kailer, Linhoping, Sweden, assignor to Bengt GunnerNilssen, Bodafors, Sweden Filed Jan. 4, 1961, Ser. No. 89,666 Claimspriority, application Sweden Mar. 11, 196i) 1 Claim. (Cl. 248-51) Thisinvention relates to wire carriers for electric flat irons and otherhand-operated electric tools used for the working on objects placed on atable.

A purpose of the invention is such a wire carrier which at the operationof the tool effectively keeps the wire clear of the tool and of theobject in question.

In the accompanying drawing the preferred form of the invention has beenshown.

In said drawing:

FIGURE 1 is a perspective view of a wire carrier installed on an ironingtable and shown in a working position; and

FIGURE 2 is a similar view showing the wire carrier in an idle position,in which it is folded down against the table leaf.

A bar 4 is in two points bent at right angles, and using as a shaft aportion 5 of the bar parallel to the longitudinal direction of the leaf1 of the ironing table and situated at a distance from a main portion 4of the bar, the bar is swingably journalled in a socket 3, which bymeans of a clamping screw device 2 on the underside of the table leaf isattached to one short side, in the shown embodiment the right shortside, of the leaf. The portion 6 of the bar connecting the main portion4 of the bar with the shaft portion 5 is arranged to co-operate with ayoke 7, which is laying on the leaf and attached to the socket in such amanner, that in the working position as shown in FIGURE 1 said mainportion 4 is situated outside and above the leaf and in the mainparallel to the longitudinal direction of the leaf. FIG- URE 2 shows thebar as swung down against the tableleaf to an idle position.

A sleeve 8 is slidable along the bar and to the sleeve a three sidedrectangularly bent rod 9 is attached by an end portion, which is woundsome turns around the sleeve to a coil 14. Around each of the threeportions of the preferably resilient rod a roll 10 is rotatablyjournalled.

When an article of clothing is to be ironed by means of an electric iron11 the conducting wire 12 of the iron is inserted through the interval15 between the free end of the rod 9 and the sleeve 8 into therectangular loop as formed by the sleeve together with the rod 9 and therolls 10, whereafter the plug 13 of the wire is plugged into an electricoutlet in a wall. At the ironing the fiat iron is moved to and fro,whereby the conducting wire brings the loop 810 with itself along thebar 4 simultaneously as the wire can run to and fro through the loop,said movement being facilitated by the rolls 1%. Hereby the weight ofthe longer portion of the wire situated between the plug 13 in theoutlet in the wall and the loop stretches the shorter and thereforelighter portion of the wire between the loop and the iron, so the wirewill be kept clear of the iron and of the clothing to be ironed.

At a modified embodiment the rod 9 is attached by its two ends to thesleeve thereby forming a closed loop or frame.

What I claim is:

A carrier for the current conducting wires of electric appliances or thelike, including a clamp for securing said carrier to a support, agenerally L-shaped bar having one leg thereof pivotally mounted in saidclamp, the other leg of said L-shaped bar extending longitudinally ofthe support, said bar movable from an inoperative position in engagementwith the support to an operative position in spaced parallel relationthereto and in a plane outside the plane of the marginal edge of thesupport, means fixed to said clamp and engageable with the leg of saidL-shaped bar pivotally mounted therein to limit pivotal movementthereof, a sleeve slidably mounted on the longitudinally extending legof said bar, a substantially U-shaped carrier member having a first legthereof secured to said sleeve, a bight portion parallel to said sleeve,a second leg parallel to said first leg and having a free endterminating in closely spaced relation to said sleeve, the first leg,bight portion, and second leg include rollers journalled thereon, thefree end of said second leg and a portion of said sleeve defining apassage through which the wire of an appliance is inserted into thecarrier member.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS1,673,704 Palmer June 12, 1928 1,999,089 Dowden Apr. 23, 1935 2,254,955Yett Sept. 2, 1941 2,627,276 Eggleton Feb. 3, 1953

